D.L.Kansas watches "One Shining Moment" on the videoboard at the Alamodome after the win Monday night.

Everything that was talked about after the 75-68 Kansas win over Memphis, while you and the paper were in bed. And yes, everyone in that arena not in a Kansas uniform thought it was over with two minutes left, probably even North Carolina coach Roy Williams, who was in the stands after losing to his old team on Saturday, wearing a shirt with a Jayhawk emblem. You'd have thought he threw all those out.

The game winner in his head: Ronnie Chalmers, the Kansas director of basketball operations, brought his son to the Final Four for the first time in 2004 at the Alamodome. After a big play in Connecticut's win over Georgia Tech, when the entire crowd stood, his son stayed in his seat.

"You OK," Dad asked. "What's wrong?"

"I'm just thinking," said the son.

"What are you thinking about?" Dad said.

"One day I'm going to be out there playing for a championship."

One day was Monday night, when Mario Chalmers hit the game-tying 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds left to force overtime against Memphis and the Jayhawks went on to a 75-68 win.

Asked how many times he'd hit game-tying or game-winning shots in his basketball life, Mario Chalmers said, "Real game-winners or game-winners in my mind? I got a couple real ones, but I got a lot of the other ones. It's something I always wanted to do and I always practiced."

D.L.The best quesadillas I've ever eaten, from Mi Tierra in San Antonio. Rumor is Mario Chalmers had one of these inside his shoe for good luck.

"It will probably be the biggest shot in Kansas history," Jayhawks coach Bill Self said. "He has no memory. The next thing that happens is the only thing he's ever thinking about. You know, just remarkable that a guy can have that much poise when the pressure's on like that."

Dad, who coached him in YMCA, AAU and high school, said son was made for it.

"He was always the go-to man," Ronnie Chalmers said. "He has confidence in himself and the coaching staff has confidence in him and over time when you work hard and show the coaches that you want to do those types of things, you get rewarded for it."

And he could enjoy not as a member of the staff, but as Dad.

"I feel like I just hit the lottery," Ronnie Chalmers said. "You've got to think about this every day for the rest of your life. This is the moment."

The foul that wasn't: The plan was for Memphis to foul Kansas in the final 10.8 seconds and not allow the Jayhawks to get off a tying 3-pointer. Didn't work.

"Sherron Collins got away - we were going to foul at halfcourt," Memphis coach John Calipari said. "He got away from our man. And then when our man did foul him and push him to the floor, he probably didn't foul him hard enough because of the space. But we were fouling. He separated. I imagine their coach saying, 'They're going to foul you, so run from 'em.' And we were fouling."

Really, truly fouling. The 5-foot-11 Collins got off a pass to Chalmers as he was going down.

"Just make a quick move and just get up the floor," Collins said. "Just like a game of tag, man, and they were not able to tag me."

D.L.A dude dressed in old-time garb cooks meat at the Alamo. I think it may have been squirrel.

So you're pretty good at tag then?

"I don't play it too much," Collins said. "I played it when I was little, but I think I'd be good at it."

The overtime was over: Why did Kansas wax Memphis so badly in the overtime?

Three reasons.

1. Momentum: "Knowing that they hit a shot like that, they got the momentum going to the extra half," Memphis freshman Derrick Rose said. "And we couldn't get it done. That's about it."

"Coach said the pressure is on those guys," said Kansas' Darrell Arthur. "We just said, 'Let's get this game over right now.'"

2. Dorsey: Memphis big man Joey Dorsey fouled out in regulation, and the four Kansas field goals in overtime all came inside.

"We didn't have Joey Dorsey, that's what happened in overtime," Calipari said. "We were running uphill from that point on without having Joey Dorsey."

"I know I let my teammates down because I should have been out there on that floor," Dorsey said. "So it was very tough."

3. Exhaustion: No Memphis player averaged more than 29 minutes per game this season. Derrick Rose played all 45 minutes Monday, Antonio Anderson and Chris Douglas-Roberts each played 42 and Robert Dozier played 39.

Kansas played Brandon Rush 42 minutes, Mario Chalmers 40 and no one else more than 35.

D.L.Jesse Jackson, who spoke with the Memphis players this week, chats with San Antonio Spur Tony Parker before the game.

"I was trying with that lead to just finish the game off," Calipari said. "So I didn't do a whole lot of subbing those last eight minutes. And that really beat down Chris and even Derrick. And I rolled the dice. I basically said, 'We better get out of here in regulation.'"

He did it himself: Kansas coach Bill Self became the first coach since Maryland's Gary Williams in 2002 to win a national title in his first national title game appearance.

After going 0 for 4 in his first four tries at making the Final Four - one at Tulsa, one at Illinois and two at Kansas - he got kind of hot.

D.L.Jesse Jackson and Clyde Drexler

"I'm a little overwhelmed right now," Self said. "I'm totally humbled to have an opportunity to coach and coach a group of men that I get an opportunity to work with every day.

"I don't know if a coach really deserves what happened to me tonight because I can't imagine it being any better any time."

Getting a little modest there, Billy. Any coach who can keep his players' heads in the game down 9 points with two minutes to play is doing something right.

"I just thought, we can do this," Self said. "We can do this. And we just need to catch a break. And we caught a break. But I never thought it was dead. I never did. But I knew it didn't look very good."

D.L.Jesse Jackson and Bill Russell

Oh, those Memphis free throws: Did the Tigers think that missing four out of five foul shots in the last 1: 15 lost them the game?

"It wasn't the free throws, it was the plays before the free throws," said freshman Derrick Rose, who made one of two with 10.8 seconds left. "When we was on the line, we was trying to make 'em. That's what everybody go up there and try to do. But I guess we didn't do it."

Chris Douglas-Roberts missed three straight free throws at the end. His two in closing seconds weren't even close, hitting the rim both short and right. He did make his first two foul shots in overtime.

"It came back and bit us," he said. "We missed 'em. We missed 'em at a crucial time. But, you know, we were still up. We were still up with 10 seconds to go. We were still up three, you know. But I guess you can boil it down to the free throws."

Unless you're Memphis coach John Calipari.

"I wish we would have made the free throws," he said. "But let's put it this way: Did we have the guys at the line that we wanted at the line? Yeah. They don't make every one. They're not machines, they're kids. And under that glare, that significance, you know, I'm still kind of numb to be honest with you. What just happened, you're kind of numb to it. It will probably it me like a ton of bricks tomorrow, that we had it in our grasp."

The Ohio State connection: Memphis star Chris Douglas-Roberts went to Cass Tech in Detroit before transferring before his senior year. That's the same high school that Ohio State defensive end Vernon Gholston attended, and Douglas-Roberts would have been a junior when Gholston was a senior.

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